You sound like the perfect person to ask: is there a bipedal dinosaur out there, where, if it were contemporaneous with humans, be just about the right size for riding (no larger than the biggest warhorse) and unlikely to turn around and nom the rider's arm off when it got peckish? I'm looking to draw dinos as a mount in a fantasy series, and I haven't found that bipedal-herbivore-reasonable-size dino to inspire me yet.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
Originally shared by Kirill Grouchnikov #pixelpushing When I start wiring real data to the UI pieces that have up until now were tested with fake content, and after it compiles I run it on the device, and it crashes immediately because, you know, real data , and I'm all like...
I'm still waiting to play this bad boy!!!
ReplyDeleteDon't hold your breath! I make no promises!
ReplyDeleteCan't a man have faith? ;)
ReplyDeleteYou sound like the perfect person to ask: is there a bipedal dinosaur out there, where, if it were contemporaneous with humans, be just about the right size for riding (no larger than the biggest warhorse) and unlikely to turn around and nom the rider's arm off when it got peckish? I'm looking to draw dinos as a mount in a fantasy series, and I haven't found that bipedal-herbivore-reasonable-size dino to inspire me yet.
ReplyDeleteAn ostrich Dino like gallimimus would be about perfect. Go nuts with the feathers.
ReplyDeletePrehistoric kangaroo might make for an interesting mount, too. (Remember, the old ones were large, brawny, and walked instead of hopping)
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And for a more tank-like mount, prehistoric wombats were HUGE and solid.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=prehistoric+kangaroo&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=959&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=7sFqVPbNAcfimAXJu4C4BQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=prehistoric%20wombat&revid=596844393&imgdii=_